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Home has become even more important than ever in the last month – a place of safety to the lucky majority who have a home to go to, a workplace, gym, cinema, pub, playground…even if it sometimes can feel like a kind of prison with soft furnishings. Here are some quotations to make you think about your home – both the physical place and the spiritual concept.

Are you alone at home, or feeling crowded out by the people in your house? There’s obviously a big difference between being alone and loneliness, and authors have quite often relished the opportunity to be isolated. Whatever your situation, we hope that both writing and reading books can help you escape into another world when you need to.

Writing a diary can be a very therapeutic activity in times of anxiety – and we are certainly living through ‘interesting’ and unusual times. We’ve gathered some quotations together to inspire you to start your own diary – whether you’ve have thoughts of future publication, or whether strictly for your eyes only.

Leaving aside Mills and Boon, we could probably all think of eight traditionally ‘romantic’ books, with brooding heroes like Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester and Heathcliff. But for a change, here are some rather more quirky books about love, with no Byronic posturing in sight.